System fonts messed up,

After installing some fonts bought online, applications like Flash, Dreamweaver, Internet browser such as Safari, Camino, IE and others has it fonts messed up.
Now when I browse the web or even search on Google, all the fonts messed up to some sort of destroyed. Please help !!! I tried to change the fonts from Safari Preferences and others; however, the problem still persist.
PLEASE HELP !!!!
Thank you very much.
Cuong Dang

It took me a while to figure out what was the font name because it was downloaded from a list of "top 25 fonts for designer". And of course, it was free so... thank you for the help.

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System font issue

Hello.
I'm running a Xfce4 DE, and I seem to be having an issue with my system font. It started after installing vlc, and the accompanying ttf-freefont package.
Here is an example of what is happening.
http://imgur.com/a/4FwKB
The top pic is with the messed up font, and the bottom is what it loked like after a fresh install of Arch with Xfce4.
As you can see several of the letters in the text overlap. The thing is that I never changed the system font, and only the size, after the inital Arch install.
http://imgur.com/GfWME
This problem affects all sorts of programs... Terminal, Firefox, wxHexEditor, etc.
In the case of my hex editor, it renders it useless.
Last edited by *nixer (2012-03-26 02:04:20)

*nixer wrote:
Hello.
I'm running a Xfce4 DE, and I seem to be having an issue with my system font. It started after installing vlc, and the accompanying ttf-freefont package.
Here is an example of what is happening.
http://imgur.com/a/4FwKB
The top pic is with the messed up font, and the bottom is what it loked like after a fresh install of Arch with Xfce4.
As you can see several of the letters in the text overlap. The thing is that I never changed the system font, and only the size, after the inital Arch install.
http://imgur.com/GfWME
This problem affects all sorts of programs... Terminal, Firefox, wxHexEditor, etc.
In the case of my hex editor, it renders it useless.
Your first image has overlapping fonts because your default fonts has been changed when you installed VLC. You can try removing the ttf-freefont like here
Your second image looks fine(you will need fonts settings as per the wiki, which is why i linked the page), it doesnt have overlapping fonts. what exactly are you asking here?
Last edited by hadrons123 (2012-03-30 18:27:16)

Which system fonts does After Effects support?

Small issue. Not super important. I'm trying to switch my sytem font to Archer Pro or similar and After Effects will not start with any of the ones I choose. I was curious if there is a list of system fonts AE supports or if there was a way for AE to ignore my system font choice so that I can bybass this issue. I'd just like to have a customized system. If there's not a way around this, I'll live. Haha.

AE simply ignores any theme customization like pretty much any Adobe app. The UI libraries are hard-coded and use fonts like Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica/ Arial - pretty much standard system fonts. As Rick already said, messing with that stuff would be kinda stupid.
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DW CS4 "System" Fonts

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Well, she really didn't like everything getting smaller on the screen, so she started playing around with various Windows settings having to do with system fonts and font sizes. Her desktop and some apps now look like she wants, but DW is a mess! The fonts in the menus are large and very poorly rendered, but even worse, the fonts in the various panels now don't seem to fit correctly, appearing cut off or overlapping in some cases.
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It does bring out one problem of LCD vs. CRT monitors: CRTs would look just about as good at any one of several resolutions, but LCDs only look sharp at their native resolution, and the trend is to keep packing in more pixels.

In my experience, unfortunately, the solution is to set the LCD monitor at it's native resolution as Dreamweaver doesn't handle the system fonts being resized. Also, when you run LCDs a smaller resolution then their native resolution, I've found that they make everything fuzzy, and you really don't want that when you're working on a design, much less when you're trying to read text.

[SOLVED] How to reset system font settings

HI All,
In my efforts to get decent looking fonts, I have somehow ended up with a system where the fonts are always sub-optimal no matter what I do. I installed DejaVu-ttf and also the Infinality font set.
I'm not sure how Infinality is supposed to work, but the impression I got from reading instructions is that it is a drop-in replacement of the system fonts, but now that I have mucked with things too much I'm not sure I'm seeing the best result I can get.
Is there a way to just reset my KDE font config to the default (hopefully without resetting my entire desktop)?
Thanks,
Chris
Last edited by cgrif (2013-07-20 04:20:06)

Thank you Boohomil,
I set up the .Xresources with the code you included, but even if I xrdb it directly, I cannot see the xft stuff in the output of env. Not sure what's wrong with that.
However, I set up everything else the way you recommended and things are looking a bit better. I actually have messed with the KDE font settings, but following cfr's advice, I just set everything to Liberation as in the xml code.
For some reason the fonts look much better when I run Gnome than KDE, which bothers me immensely. I moved to Arch because I want to learn to have control of everything, but it looks like I'm kind of stuck on the fonts! No worries, I'll keep chipping away at it as I have time.
Thanks a lot,
Chris
bohoomil wrote:
First of all, I'm not sure what your KDE font settings look like. I believe you've left everything as is, so open your control panel and duplicate the values from /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-base-rendering.conf in the appropriate section. This should include hintstyle=slight, antialias=true, subpixel order=rgb, dpi=96. You may try using hintstyle=full if necessary.
Next, check your xft settings. You should see the following:
$ env | grep Xft
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.autohint: 0
Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.hintstyle: hintfull
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault
Xft.rgba: rgb
If the output is different, put the values above to your .Xresources file and make sure it gets loaded with your desktop. This should basically duplicate the values you have already set in your KDE control panel.
Next, check if your fontconfig settings are loaded properly. Simply run 'env | grep INFINALITY' and if you get a list of entries starting with INFINALITY_FT_, then everything is OK.
Finally, try changing your default fonts. DejaVu is fine as a backup family, but using it as a base one is not a good idea. If you have access to Win 7/8 fonts, use them. If not, check Liberation, ChromesOS or Droid families. Install them all and set the defaults in $HOME/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/65-latin.conf:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>

<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Liberation Serif</family>
</prefer>
</alias>

<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Liberation Sans</family>
</prefer>
</alias>

<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>Liberation Mono</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
</fontconfig>
If you are going to use Windows fonts and don't want to change anything, you don't need this file. By the way, you can find it along with other examples in the infinality-bundle documentation.

CF/JRun JRE access to system fonts

I'm evaluating a 3rd party Java library to use with
ColdFusion for PowerPoint management. (
http://www.tonicsystems.com)
One of the libraries, the Transformer, can be used to convert
slides to any Java supported image format. The problem I'm running
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some fonts are not being found, so the generated images have boxes
where characters should be. If I run the library outside of
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library works fine. Does anyone know if there is any special
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--Nathan

nmische wrote:
> under ColdFusion some fonts are not being found, so the
generated images have
> boxes where characters should be. If I run the library
outside of ColdFusion
could be the encoding is mildly messed up (boxes are symptoms
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After removing system fonts and reinstalling fonts, FireFox will not start

After removing system fonts and reinstalling fonts, FireFox will not start! When I start FireFox the "Mozilla Crash Reporter" opens as if FF just crashed??? I don't see any records in event viewer. I am using FF v3.6.3 on a Windows 7 box. I tried uninstalling 3.6.3 and installing 3.0.18 and had the same problem!
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== After a uninstalled all fonts including system fonts and then reinstalling system fonts. ==
== User Agent ==
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The files with submitted crash report ids are inside the ''submitted '' directory, from the directory you found the LastCrash.txt timestamp file.
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See http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Options+window+-+Content+panel#Fonts_Dialog
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Setting for "Rely on system fonts" does not work

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Hey SchenkerBob,
It is possible to disable non-system fonts temporarily for all applications using the Font Book application. This article explains how to do so -
Mac Basics: Font Book - Apple Support
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Thank you for your time in advance.
Regards,
Marc

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